"Damn it, die!" Xiao Hua drove the sword gourd, sneering inwardly. He knew the power of the Spirit Severing Primordial Light well enough.
Yet what happened next made it impossible for him to laugh.
Before the crimson and azure Spirit Severing Primordial Light could fly out, the strange insect did not stand frozen beneath the sword gourd. Instead, black light flickered again within its two fist-sized black eyes. The sword gourd's ability to nail down the mind had failed! Xiao Hua's heart lurched. Looking again at the strange insect, he saw that as the Spirit Severing Primordial Light descended, it actually raised its head, opened its mouth, and bit toward the two rays of light!
"Damn it, you want to eat even that?" Startled, Xiao Hua pointed a finger. At the instant the azure and crimson Spirit Severing Primordial Light reached the insect's mouth, they veered slightly and slashed against its shell.
"Crack, crack..." Sparks flew from the strange insect's shell as the two rays of Spirit Severing Primordial Light rebounded. The insect seemed enraged by the attack. Spreading its wings and baring its fangs, it lunged at Xiao Hua.
The void was pitch-black, and the strange insect was black as well. Even the gray upon its wings could not be seen in this void. Had Xiao Hua not been forcing his Dharma Eye open, how could he have spotted its attack? Moreover, as it beat its wings, there seemed to be no abnormality whatsoever. There was not even the sound of wind, much less the usual ripples; it was as though the insect and the void were one body. Seeing it move even more nimbly than a fish in water and close in within a few breaths, Xiao Hua was shocked again. He had no time to retrieve the